Who is using the 2D barcode?
The police for one. When you are pulled over for speeding on the interstate, for instance, a state trooper will ask for your driver’s license and electronically grab the data from your license. Businesses are also using driver’s license scanning equipment. The first businesses to start swiping license data were bars and convenience stores. They are doing this in the name of age verification and fraud detection. Businesses many times do not ask for consent from their customers–or even bother to notify them–before swiping a card. In most states it is legal for businesses to scan licenses and save the data to a customer database for future analysis and use. Other places installing license scanning equipment are airports, hospitals, and federal buildings.
